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Alone and on Foot in Antarctica

2023/9/5
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Henry Worsley: Worsley 的探险目标是独自一人，不借助任何外力穿越南极洲。他详细记录了自己的旅程，包括每日里程、身体状况和感受。他深受 Shackleton 的影响，并将 Shackleton 的座右铭 "By endurance we conquer" 作为自己的人生信条。在探险过程中，他面临着极端恶劣的天气条件、巨大的体力消耗和精神压力，但他始终坚持不懈，直到身体状况恶化到无法继续前进的地步。他最终在距离终点 900 多英里的地方放弃了探险，并向外界发出了求救信号。Worsley 的探险精神和毅力令人敬佩，但他最终也为自己的梦想付出了生命的代价。 Joanna Worsley: Joanna Worsley 是 Henry Worsley 的妻子，她一直支持丈夫的探险梦想，尽管她知道探险的危险性。在探险过程中，她与丈夫保持着密切的联系，并时刻关注着丈夫的状况。当丈夫的身体状况恶化时，她经历了巨大的精神煎熬，但她最终还是选择尊重丈夫的决定。Worsley 的去世对 Joanna Worsley 来说是巨大的打击，但她仍然怀念丈夫，并继续传承丈夫的探险精神。 David Grann: David Grann 作为一名作家，记录了 Henry Worsley 的探险故事。他通过采访 Worsley 的妻子和朋友，以及分析 Worsley 的日记和音频日记，还原了 Worsley 探险的全过程。他指出，Worsley 的探险不仅是一场对体力的挑战，更是一场对精神意志的考验。Worsley 的探险精神和 Shackleton 的探险精神异曲同工，但 Shackleton 懂得在必要的时候放弃，而 Worsley 则坚持到了生命的尽头。Grann 的报道揭示了极地探险的残酷和人类精神的伟大。

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Henry Worsley, a British commando and explorer, set out to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, inspired by Ernest Shackleton. He meticulously planned his journey, relying on a satellite phone for contact and potential rescue.

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Henry Worsley was a husband, father, and an officer of an élite British commando unit; also a tapestry weaver, amateur boxer, photographer, and collector of rare books, maps, and fossils. But his true obsession was exploration. Worsley revered the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and he had led a 2009 expedition to the South Pole. But Worsley planned an even greater challenge. At fifty-five, he set out to trek alone to ski from one side of the Antarctic continent to the other, hauling more than three hundred pounds of gear and posting an audio diary by satellite phone. The New Yorker staff writer David Grann wrote about) Worsley’s quest, and spoke with his widow, Joanna Worsley, about the painful choice she made to support her husband in a mortally dangerous endeavor.

This segment originally aired March 2, 2018.